Art Quote by Hippolyte Taine

Art is man determined to die sane.

— Bernard DeVoto

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to…

— Constantin Brancusi

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a…

— Audre Lorde

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

— Audre Lorde

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

— Ruth Asawa

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

— Jean Baudrillard

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart,…

— Edvard Munch